Specialty Store Supplies for the Pampered Pet
Sparky is welcome to browse the aisles with his owner. Fido can taste the latest all-natural treats. There’s even an exercise area for Fluffy. No, this is not your local Petco. It’s Bone ...
View ArticleRetailers Cleaning Up With Aisle50
From Nabisco cookies to 2-liter bottles of Coca-Cola, a wide variety of grocery items have been featured on the digital grocery deal site Aisle50. Yet the deeply discounted products are not the only ...
View ArticleRetail Group Rebrands Itself
The trade association representing retail sales, marketing and support companies has a new name and vision. World Alliance for Retail Excellence & Standards is the new name for what was formerly ...
View ArticleMystery meat its whats for dinner | GrrlScientist
When I was an undergraduate in college, my colleagues and I would joke about the meals served in the dorm cafeteria as containing "mystery meat". At the time, I was fresh off the racetrack, ...
View ArticleWoolies to DNA test home-brand meat
Woolworths will test the imported New Zealand meat used in some of its private-label frozen meals."While we have a robust traceability process in place, we will be testing Woolworths-branded ...
View ArticleAW Revenue Royalties Income Fund announces fourth quarter 2012 results
Same store sales growth improves from the third quarter to +0.5% for the fourth quarter Total system sales and royalty income up 5.7% for the quarter; 3.6% for the year 31 new restaurants ...
View ArticleFood Alliance ceases operations
Food Alliance, a certifier of sustainable agricultural practices, is ceasing operations. The Portland-based nonprofit organization announced in a press release Feb. 12 it is "unable to endure ...
View ArticleUS condemns Russian ban on US meat
WASHINGTON--Washington sharply criticized Moscow Monday for banning imports of U.S. meat, saying the Russians had ignored scientific proof that an additive in U.S. animal feed is ...
View ArticleMoscow reluctant to import US meat
A new trade war is on between Russia and the United States. Moscow has banned the import of US meat, because, it says, the use of growth stimulators is to blame. No politics involved, it adds. ...
View ArticleMost romantic restaurants prep for Valentines Day
When restaurant reservation website OpenTable recently ranked Tampa the No. 15 most romantic city in the United States based on its restaurants, it also named 10 most romantic restaurants in Tampa, ...
View ArticlePizza Hut’s signature scent to waft over more countries
Running behind on a Valentine's Day gift? Now people around the world can give their sweethearts something saucy - courtesy of a Canadian idea.Yum Brands Inc. has announced that its Pizza Hut ...
View ArticlePlants raided in horse meat inquiry
Two meat plants have been raided under suspicion of passing off horse meat as beef for kebabs and burgers. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and police officers entered Peter Boddy slaughterhouse in ...
View ArticleBurger King to unveil 10 new specialty-coffee beverages
New specialty-coffee beverages will hit the menu at Burger King beginning in March. Burger King has announced yet another expansion to its menu with 10 new specialty-coffee beverages beginning in ...
View ArticleVIDEO Meat firm in food safety probe
A slaughterhouse and a meat firm have been raided by police and food safety officials probing alleged mislabelling of horsemeat as beef. Peter Boddy Licensed Slaughterhouse, in West Yorkshire, and ...
View Article‘Micro restaurants’ coming to N.C. State’s Centennial Campus
N.C. State University's Centennial Campus. Four new "micro restaurants" will open in August when the first phase of construction is complete at the $129 million Wolf Ridge at ...
View ArticleLean Cuisine ravioli recalled after customers find glass fragments
Nestle Prepared Foods is recalling some boxes of frozen Lean Cuisine ravioli due to possible glass shards in the products. The company announced on Feb. 8 that packages of Lean Cuisine Culinary ...
View ArticleAnimal Drugs in Your Food Probably
Most people have heard of the drug companies Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Merck. But they may not have heard of the animal-drug companies Fort Dodge, Elanco, or Intervet and the drugs they make. ...
View ArticleSobeys Warehouse Workers Strike
Sobeys distribution center here went on strike Monday, saying they were unhappy with terms of a contract offer from the retailer. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175, which represents 428 ...
View ArticlePolice and FSA raid two British meat plants
horsemeat scandal .They swooped on Peter Boddy, a slaughterhouse in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and Farmbox Meats Ltd near Aberystwyth in Wales, as they investigated the circumstances in which ...
View ArticleFrench prosecutor seeks $1 mln fine for Total over Iraq oil-for-food
PARIS Feb 12 (Reuters) - Paris prosecutors asked a criminal court on Tuesday to fine French energy company Total 750,000 euros ($1 million) for corrupting foreign agents during the U.N. ...
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